Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Centric Management of Resources in Modern Distributed Computing Systems

TL;DR

This paper advocates for AI-driven resource management in modern distributed systems, highlighting its potential to improve efficiency, adaptability, and accuracy over traditional static or heuristic methods, with practical use cases from major cloud providers.

Contribution

It introduces a conceptual AI-centric resource management model for distributed systems and demonstrates its feasibility through real-world case studies from Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

Findings

AI-based solutions are feasible for real-time resource management.

AI approaches outperform traditional static or heuristic methods.

Practical use cases show significant potential for AI in cloud resource optimization.

Abstract

Contemporary Distributed Computing Systems (DCS) such as Cloud Data Centres are large scale, complex, heterogeneous, and distributed across multiple networks and geographical boundaries. On the other hand, the Internet of Things (IoT)-driven applications are producing a huge amount of data that requires real-time processing and fast response. Managing these resources efficiently to provide reliable services to end-users or applications is a challenging task. The existing Resource Management Systems (RMS) rely on either static or heuristic solutions inadequate for such composite and dynamic systems. The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to data availability and processing capabilities manifested into possibilities of exploring data-driven solutions in RMS tasks that are adaptive, accurate, and efficient. In this regard, this paper aims to draw the motivations and necessities for data-driven solutions in resource management. It identifies the challenges associated with it and outlines the potential future research directions detailing where and how to apply the data-driven techniques in the different RMS tasks. Finally, it provides a conceptual data-driven RMS model for DCS and presents the two real-time use cases (GPU frequency scaling and data centre resource management from Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure) demonstrating AI-centric approaches' feasibility.